Brigade was to our army what the Imperial Guard was to the first Napoleon; that, through the blessing of God, it met the thus far victorious enemy, and turned the fortunes of the day." From a man so modest, and so much opposed to all vain-gloriousness and boasting, this statement stands for a great deal. It would never have been made had the praise been undeserved.

The battle, however, was not over. The Federal lines had been driven from the Henry house plateau, but their numbers rendered them still formidable, and prompt steps were taken to follow up this important blow. While marshalling his troops for a final attack, General Johnston, who had commanded the whole field from his headquarters at the Lewis house, received intelligence that "a Federal army" had reached Manassas, and was then advancing upon his rear. This force was soon ascertained, however, to be that of General Kirby Smith of the Army of the Shenandoah, who had just arrived with 1,700 fresh infantry. They had come over the Manassas Gap Railroad, and, hearing the heavy firing, General Smith had stopped the train before it reached the Junction, disembarked the troops, and hastened forward to the battle field. Coming rapidly into position near the Chinn house, on the Confederate left, he opened fire with Beckham's battery on the enemy at the moment when they were commencing a final attack. Their line extended in the shape of a crescent from the Carter house, around in rear of Dogan's, and across the Warrenton road to Chinn's house. The fields and roads were filled with infantry, and their two brigades of cavalry which had not been used. General Smith had scarcely formed his line, when the Federal commander, throwing forward a cloud of skirmishers, extended his right wing to outflank and envelope the Confederate line. They were met by the fresh troops under Smith and Early with great spirit, and this unexpected resistance, at a point supposed to be undefended, obviously disheartened the attacking column. At the same moment the whole Southern line advanced to the charge, and the combined attack upon the Federal flank and front was decisive. The enemy was forced over the narrow plateau near Chinn's

house, out of the woods on its western slope, across the Warrenton road, and on toward Sudley and Red House fords. Their lines were broken, and the army in full retreat. Soon this retreat became a wild and panic-stricken flight. The roads were filled with artillery, the horses at full gallop; men were crushed beneath the wheels; wagons were overturned amid the hurrying crowd, and every article which could impede the retreat was dropped by the men in their headlong flight.

The rout was so complete, that Jackson said, in his curt voice, as he sat his horse and looked at the retreating army: "Give me ten thousand men, and I will be in Washington to-night!"*

The writer has received valuable information in regard to this battle from General Stuart, General Hampton, General Pendleton, and others. Jackson's report of the operations of his brigade is lost, and the general official report is very confused and inaccurate. It is there stated that Jackson was repulsed and driven from the plateau at two o'clock. This is unquestionably an error. He states, in his letter to Colonel Bennett, that he pierced the Federal centre and held the ground thus won; and General Pendleton, who was present, writes that in this charge the enemy were "thoroughly broken and thrown back, nor did they at all again recover that ridge." General Hampton's statement to the writer is distinctly to the same effect. The unreliable character of the general official report was a matter of notoriety in the Army of Northern Virginia; but no intelligent person regarded the eminent soldier whose name is signed to it as responsible for its inflation of style or inaccuracy of statement.

PART II.

THE CAMPAIGN OF THE VALLEY.

CHAPTER I.

THE AUTUMN OF 1861.

THE first days succeeding the battle of Manassas were passed by the Southern troops in discussing the incidents of the engagement. Among other things, they recalled General Bee's expression while rallying his broken lines: "There is Jackson, standing like a stone wall"; and the name of "Stonewall" from that time forward adhered to the Virginian. It has now become his designation throughout the world.

Jackson always insisted, however, that his troops, and not himself, were entitled to this name. He was not a little gratified at it, and on his death-bed said: "The men who live through this war will be proud to say, 'I was one of the Stonewall Brigade,' to their children." But the brigade and the army insisted as pertinaciously upon applying the term to himself as descriptive of his obstinate resolution; and they succeeded in fixing it upon him. He was never generally known as "Thomas Jonathan"—his real baptismal name. Bee, when about to surrender his brave soul to his Maker, had baptized him, amid blood and fire, as "Stonewall" Jackson.